Teaching Resources: Drafting

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Drafting

Adding to a Conversation - Enacting Choices
All the World Is a Text
Analyzing Texts Through a Cultural Lens
Audience Textual Analysis
Autobiographical Collage Essay

Blowing Things Into Proportion - Generative Writing Prompts
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Note Card Exercise
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Other Activities

Card Exercise
Cinderella Story
Civic Writing
Composing In Eprime
Composing Your First Draft of Adding To a Conversation
Constructing a Reading
Contexts That Make Me - Assignment
Contexts That Make Me - Revision Exercise
Contexts That Make Me - Generative Writing Activities
Critical Cartooning
Critiquing Film

Favorite Meal Exercise

Improv as Idea Wrestling
Incorporating a Text Into Your Essay

Inquiring Into Self - Show and Tell

Legos Exercise for Sentence Structure

Making a Hypertext (Without a Computer!)
Moving Toward Reflection
My Self In Words - Assignment

Places Exercise
Possible Ways of Responding to a Text
Print Text Collage

Quotation Sandwich

Reflections on Conferences
Research Update and Annotated Bibliography
Rhetorical Prospectus

Self As Writer - Assignment
Self In Contradiction - Sample Assignment Sheet
Short Long Short
Show and Tell
Some Text Wrestling Ideas - Magazine Creation
Sorting Through This Mess
Students' Academic Discourse
Style and Substance

Take Out Your Pencils
Telephone Game - English 112 Style
Trying On Style Using Poe,Woolf, and Hemmingway
Two Kinds of Intelligence
Typical Response Sequence

Ways to Weave the Journal Into 112
What is in My Bag?
Write to the Beat
Writing Experiences and Reflections
Writing Intros

Your Target Audience

 

  

Process Goals

This is the stage of writing most of our students would call the 1st draft: their first full length writing in the form their essay might take. At the initial drafting stage, we encourage students to pay particular attention to clarifying their thoughts, focusing their topic, and developing their ideas. As a result, these drafts typically are “writer-centered,” giving students a chance to organize their essays in ways that make sense to them.

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